Comparison of the structural and physical properties of human hair eumelanin following enzymatic or acid/base extraction

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 355-365

  Liu, Yan ^a   Kempf, Valerie R ^a   Nofsinger, J Brian ^a,d   Weinert, Emily E ^a   Rudnicki, Mark ^a   Wakamatsu, Kazumasa ^b   Ito, Shosuke ^b   Simon, John D ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Triangle Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

5,6 dihydroxyindole 2 carboxylic acid; 5,6 dihyroxyindole; Chemical analysis; Eumelanin structure; ICP MS analysis; Melanin isolation; Optical spectroscopy; Scanning microscopy

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; KERATIN; MELANIN; METAL ION; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM;

ACID BASE BALANCE; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACIDS; ADSORPTION; AMINO ACIDS; ENZYMES; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELANINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET;

EID: 0043198529     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0749.2003.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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